"卿卿我我" meaning in Chinese

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  "etymology_examples": [
    {
      "english": "I endear my dear and love my dear, and that's why I call my dear \"my dear\". If I were not to call my dear \"my dear\", who else is supposed to call my dear \"my dear\"?",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Literary Chinese",
        "Traditional Chinese"
      ],
      "ref": " Liu Yiqing (editor), A New Account of the Tales of the World, 5ᵗʰ century CE",
      "roman": "Qīn qīng ài qīng, shìyǐ qīng qīng; wǒ bù qīng qīng, shéi dāng qīng qīng?",
      "tags": [
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "text": "親卿愛卿，是以卿卿；我不卿卿，誰當卿卿？",
      "type": "quote"
    },
    {
      "english": "I endear my dear and love my dear, and that's why I call my dear \"my dear\". If I were not to call my dear \"my dear\", who else is supposed to call my dear \"my dear\"?",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Literary Chinese",
        "Simplified Chinese"
      ],
      "ref": " Liu Yiqing (editor), A New Account of the Tales of the World, 5ᵗʰ century CE",
      "roman": "Qīn qīng ài qīng, shìyǐ qīng qīng; wǒ bù qīng qīng, shéi dāng qīng qīng?",
      "tags": [
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "text": "亲卿爱卿，是以卿卿；我不卿卿，谁当卿卿？",
      "type": "quote"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "卿"
      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*竹林七賢"
      },
      "expansion": "竹林七賢",
      "name": "zh-m"
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        "1": "卿"
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      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
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      },
      "expansion": "卿",
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      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "卿"
      },
      "expansion": "卿",
      "name": "lang"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "The chengyu, or at least the reduplication of 卿 (MC khjaeng) in it, appears to be influenced by a story in the A New Account of the Tales of the World. Wang Rong, one of the Seven Sages (竹林七賢), felt discomfited by his wife calling him 卿 (MC khjaeng), a second-person term of endearment then typically used by the man to refer to the woman (i.e. men's speech). The wife, in retort, famously said\n:\nHere in the construct 卿卿, the first 卿 is used by conversion (or anthimeria) as a verb that means \"to call someone by 卿\", which was idiomatic due to the high degree of elasticity of the Chinese language.",
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      "expansion": "卿卿我我",
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  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Cantonese chengyu",
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      "glosses": [
        "whispers of love; lovers' talk; to bill and coo; to be very much in love; intimate relations"
      ],
      "id": "en-卿卿我我-zh-phrase-fLg9Kp7i",
      "links": [
        [
          "whisper",
          "whisper"
        ],
        [
          "love",
          "love"
        ],
        [
          "lover",
          "lover"
        ],
        [
          "talk",
          "talk"
        ],
        [
          "bill and coo",
          "bill and coo"
        ],
        [
          "in love",
          "in love"
        ],
        [
          "intimate",
          "intimate"
        ],
        [
          "relation",
          "relation"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
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        "A New Account of the Tales of the World",
        "Wang Rong (Jin dynasty)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "qīngqīngwǒwǒ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄑㄧㄥ ㄑㄧㄥ ㄨㄛˇ ㄨㄛˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hing¹ hing¹ ngo⁵ ngo⁵"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "qīngqīngwǒwǒ [Phonetic:qīngqīngwówǒ]"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "cingcingwǒwǒ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chʻing¹-chʻing¹-wo³-wo³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chīng-chīng-wǒ-wǒ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chingchingwoowoo"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "цинцинвово"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "cincinvovo"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ wɔ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ wɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hīng hīng ngóh ngóh"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hing¹ hing¹ ngo⁵ ngo⁵"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hing¹ hing¹ ngo⁵ ngo⁵"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɪŋ⁵⁵ hɪŋ⁵⁵ ŋɔː¹³ ŋɔː¹³/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "other": "[Phonetic: qīngqīngwówǒ]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ wɔ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ wɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɪŋ⁵⁵ hɪŋ⁵⁵ ŋɔː¹³ ŋɔː¹³/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "卿卿我我"
}

{
  "etymology_examples": [
    {
      "english": "I endear my dear and love my dear, and that's why I call my dear \"my dear\". If I were not to call my dear \"my dear\", who else is supposed to call my dear \"my dear\"?",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Literary Chinese",
        "Traditional Chinese"
      ],
      "ref": " Liu Yiqing (editor), A New Account of the Tales of the World, 5ᵗʰ century CE",
      "roman": "Qīn qīng ài qīng, shìyǐ qīng qīng; wǒ bù qīng qīng, shéi dāng qīng qīng?",
      "tags": [
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "text": "親卿愛卿，是以卿卿；我不卿卿，誰當卿卿？",
      "type": "quote"
    },
    {
      "english": "I endear my dear and love my dear, and that's why I call my dear \"my dear\". If I were not to call my dear \"my dear\", who else is supposed to call my dear \"my dear\"?",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Literary Chinese",
        "Simplified Chinese"
      ],
      "ref": " Liu Yiqing (editor), A New Account of the Tales of the World, 5ᵗʰ century CE",
      "roman": "Qīn qīng ài qīng, shìyǐ qīng qīng; wǒ bù qīng qīng, shéi dāng qīng qīng?",
      "tags": [
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "text": "亲卿爱卿，是以卿卿；我不卿卿，谁当卿卿？",
      "type": "quote"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "卿"
      },
      "expansion": "卿 (MC khjaeng)",
      "name": "ltc-l"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*竹林七賢"
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      "expansion": "竹林七賢",
      "name": "zh-m"
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      "args": {
        "1": "卿"
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      "expansion": "卿 (MC khjaeng)",
      "name": "ltc-l"
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      },
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "卿"
      },
      "expansion": "卿",
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    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "卿"
      },
      "expansion": "卿",
      "name": "lang"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "The chengyu, or at least the reduplication of 卿 (MC khjaeng) in it, appears to be influenced by a story in the A New Account of the Tales of the World. Wang Rong, one of the Seven Sages (竹林七賢), felt discomfited by his wife calling him 卿 (MC khjaeng), a second-person term of endearment then typically used by the man to refer to the woman (i.e. men's speech). The wife, in retort, famously said\n:\nHere in the construct 卿卿, the first 卿 is used by conversion (or anthimeria) as a verb that means \"to call someone by 卿\", which was idiomatic due to the high degree of elasticity of the Chinese language.",
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      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
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      },
      "expansion": "卿卿我我",
      "name": "head"
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  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
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      "categories": [
        "Cantonese chengyu",
        "Cantonese idioms",
        "Cantonese lemmas",
        "Chinese chengyu",
        "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Chinese idioms",
        "Chinese lemmas",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 卿",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 我",
        "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Mandarin chengyu",
        "Mandarin idioms",
        "Mandarin lemmas",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "whispers of love; lovers' talk; to bill and coo; to be very much in love; intimate relations"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "whisper",
          "whisper"
        ],
        [
          "love",
          "love"
        ],
        [
          "lover",
          "lover"
        ],
        [
          "talk",
          "talk"
        ],
        [
          "bill and coo",
          "bill and coo"
        ],
        [
          "in love",
          "in love"
        ],
        [
          "intimate",
          "intimate"
        ],
        [
          "relation",
          "relation"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "A New Account of the Tales of the World",
        "Wang Rong (Jin dynasty)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "qīngqīngwǒwǒ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄑㄧㄥ ㄑㄧㄥ ㄨㄛˇ ㄨㄛˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hing¹ hing¹ ngo⁵ ngo⁵"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "qīngqīngwǒwǒ [Phonetic:qīngqīngwówǒ]"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "cingcingwǒwǒ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chʻing¹-chʻing¹-wo³-wo³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chīng-chīng-wǒ-wǒ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chingchingwoowoo"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "цинцинвово"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "cincinvovo"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ wɔ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ wɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hīng hīng ngóh ngóh"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hing¹ hing¹ ngo⁵ ngo⁵"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hing¹ hing¹ ngo⁵ ngo⁵"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɪŋ⁵⁵ hɪŋ⁵⁵ ŋɔː¹³ ŋɔː¹³/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "other": "[Phonetic: qīngqīngwówǒ]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ wɔ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ wɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɪŋ⁵⁵ hɪŋ⁵⁵ ŋɔː¹³ ŋɔː¹³/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "卿卿我我"
}

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